Over the past decade, cosplay has exploded in popularity. Once a niche pursuit of folks at the fringes of fandom, it’s now a worldwide industry, attracting countless new devotees and fans every single day.

Crediting is important! Cosplay images aren’t YouTube videos, with their own embedded source and information, and as such can easily become anonymous Tumblr/Reddit fodder. That’s not fair on the cosplayers who worked hard on their outfits and the photographer who took the images, so wherever possible we’ll credit everyone involved. And if we can’t, an editor’s contact information will be provided in a post, and we’ll update a post the second we can.